The 90 best temperance phrases

Temperance is an effective and necessary quality to face different types of challenges and problems in life. It not only serves to find a good solution, but also to maintain a constructive attitude and as calm as possible.

In this article you will find a selection of the best phrases about temperance, which help to understand this concept and apply it on a day-to-day basis.

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The most inspiring phrases about temperance

This is a compilation of quotes and reflections on temperance that are interesting and can lead you to analyze your reactions and improve them.

1. We become righteous by performing acts of justice; temperate, performing acts of temperance; brave, performing acts of bravery. (Aristotle)

This Greek philosopher tells us that justice begins from honest acts.

2. Temperance and work are the two best custodians of virtue. (Don Bosco)

It is essential to have a clear conscience and be active.

3. Temperance is intelligent friendship with what makes us enjoy. (Fernando Savater)

An example of how temperance is represented.

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4. I am not in control of your words, but I am in control of my responses. (Jumo)

Criticisms are not always personal attacks.

5. Knowing him has not yet learned to smile and not be jealous; His mighty passion has not yet become calm in beauty. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

A sign of insecurity.

6. Enough is enough for the measured man. (Euripides)

It is not carried away by greed.

7. Good taste is in the middle, as is virtue; between the folly of the vulgar and that of the chosen ones. (Jean Rostand)

It is important to know what we can obtain and what is not within our reach.

8. Nothing in excess, everything in moderation. (Solon)

Excesses can lead to perdition.

9. Temperance is a means with respect to pleasures. (Aristotle)

It is knowing when to enjoy rather than abuse.

10. Exercise and temperance can preserve some of our initial strength even in old age. (Marco Tulio Cicero)

This, because the force comes from within us.

11. Health, longevity, and beauty are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for it. (Amos Bronson Alcott)

Temperance as an ingredient of fullness.

12. Temperance is the vigor of the soul. (Jaime Balmes)

It is a representation of what we carry inside.

13. Don't curse the darkness; just light a candle. (Confucius)

We all go through bad times, but these are the ones that lead us to appreciate the good ones.

14. Anyone who fights monsters must ensure that by doing so they do not become another monster. (Friederich Nietzsche)

Be careful not to get carried away by power.

15. Eternal life is a real and guaranteed fact for those who manage to reach an evolved world. (Enrique Barrios)

Eternal life is one where we all have an open mind and are respectful and empathetic.

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16. It is a great wealth for man to live sparingly and serenely, because in this way he will never have a shortage of little. (Lucretius)

Peace of mind leads us to moderation.

17. Here is one of the rules that I consider to be the most useful in life: never overdo anything. (Terence)

A very important and functional standard.

18. Order and measure, you will have a good life.

we all need to have a certain organization in our life.

19. The ingredients of health and long life are great temperance, open air, easy work and little care. (Philip Sidney)

Do you agree with this recipe?

20. I neither drink nor smoke, because my teacher instilled in me three cardinal virtues; cleaning in person, cleaning in mind; temperance. (John Burns)

Great lessons that we must keep.

21. Temperance: do not eat until you are fed up, or drink until you lose consciousness. (Benjamin Franklin)

All excess makes us lose ourselves in the lack of control.

22. She did everything in a methodical and leisurely way, as if there was nothing that hadn't been planned for her from her birth. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

The destination may exist, but it is subject to change.

23. Patience is the science of keeping the peace. (Popular saying)

What it really takes to be patient.

24. You must always keep your head cold, your heart warm and your hand long. (Confucius)

This helps us to have a clear perspective on the world.

25. Maturity in the male means that he has rediscovered the seriousness that as a child he had when playing. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Maturity is a sign of a good childhood.

26. It is the same virtue to moderate in joy as to moderate in pain. (Seneca)

It is important not to get carried away by excesses, but it is also important not to let ourselves be carried away by pain.

27. Moderation is the state of the soul that owns itself. (Marquis De Vauvenargues)

It is the way we can be in control of our actions.

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28. Living temperately makes people healthy and rich.

Because it allows you to enjoy life in a healthy way.

29. Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind that ties to passion. (Thomas Aquinas)

It is being at peace with who we are and what we want to achieve.

30. Temperance in everything is a requirement for happiness. (Benjamin Haydon)

You cannot be happy if you cannot manage your life well.

31. Sunrise, which is no small thing. (Spanish saying)

there is always a new opportunity.

32. The best: moderation. (Cleobulus)

Don't underestimate the power of organization and calm.

33. No premature knowledge, no sudden action, no troublesome jump. (Fernando The Catholic)

Everything in good time and with the right preparation.

34. Who is free? Only the one who knows how to control his passions. (Horacio)

When we control our feelings, we allow them to express themselves better.

35. The smaller the drink, the clearer the head and the colder the blood. (William Penn)

A tip about moderating with your drink.

36. The best is mild temperance; intemperate temperance damages the cause of temperance. (Mark Twain)

Be responsible for our actions and learn from our mistakes.

37. Once we learn to make our interlocutors feel differently, instead of making them see reason, we will be better communicators. (Arthur Rowshan)

It's okay to have different opinions and respect them.

38. For me, temperance is essential for a good job. (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

A good job needs a good organization.

39. Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. (William Shakespeare)

Nobody is perfect.

40. Temperance and work are the two true doctors of man; work whets his appetite, and temperance forbids him to abuse it. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

The benefit ratio between temperance and work.

41. Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are that of the body. (Benjamin Whichcote)

A way to keep ourselves clean.

42. The sign of a wise or good man is little, to suffer the transgression of temperance to buy the reputation of a generous entertainer. (Francis Atterbury)

It is very common to allow ourselves to be tempted by easy pleasures, without thinking about their consequences.

43. The hidden message is only available when one is ready. (Tony Parsons)

You can't understand something you don't want to know.

44. Live soberly and you will be as rich as a king. (Anonymous)

You are not only rich with money, but with quality of life.

45. No table is well decorated if temperance is absent from it. (Ramón Llull)

We all need that moderating character.

46. Discipline is necessary in our temperance. (Sunday Adelaja)

Discipline helps us to know the extent of our limits.

47. Temperance to be a virtue must be gratuitous and not forced. (C. TO. Bartol)

No one can force another person to be someone else.

48. The public imagination is seldom captured by mild temperance. (Larry J. Sabato)

Sometimes the imagination is seen as a threat.

49. All virtue is based on measure. (Seneca)

there are those who consider that moderation is a punishment.

50. I know why the right medium is not followed: the intelligent man goes further, the imbecile stays more here. (Confucius)

It never hurts to explore our options.

51. In the dark you have either fear or the opportunity to turn on the light. (Joan Miquel Viadé Freixes)

It all depends on the confidence we have in ourselves.

52. Temperance is the belt of reason and the brake of passion, strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. (Jeremy Taylor)

What temperance implies in us.

53. Temperance is a disposition that restricts our desires for the things that are basic to desire. (San Agustin)

It teaches us what is really important.

54. Time... excellent physician of our passions. (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne)

Time helps us with endless things if we let it.

55. Temperance is moderation in the use of the good and total abstinence of the bad. (Frances Willard)

It is what teaches us what makes us good and what hurts us.

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56. It takes a strong spirit to remain restrained when things are going well for us. (Seneca)

It is very easy to get carried away when we have money.

57. The rude are almost always wrong in their thoughts. Simplicity is a force that conquers all cunning. (Giovanni Papini)

Rude people don't have the ability to reason.

58. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children cannot be measured. (Billy Graham)

Mothers are the first influences on their children.

59. Health consists solely of temperance. (Alexander Pope)

When we learn to live in peace, our health improves.

60. When you are irritated, count to ten before speaking; if you are very angry, count to a hundred. (Thomas Jefferson)

You will appreciate not talking when you are angry.

61. Observe moderation: proportionate is the best in all things. (Hesiod)

What is provided offers us balance.

62. Nothing too much. (Solon)

When we have too many things, they get out of our control.

63. Moderation is like temperance. We are not as reluctant to eat more, as we fear harming ourselves. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

It gives us awareness of what we need.

64. Temperance is the wisdom of knowing that not all constructive work requires a hammer. (Wes Fesler)

You don't need to be ruthless to someone for them to learn a lesson.

65. If temperance prevails, education can prevail; if temperance fails, education must fail. (Horace Mann)

Temperance goes hand in hand with quality education.

66. The just man is not the one who does not commit any injustice, but the one who, being able to be unjust, does not want to be. (Menander)

The one who knows what things are negative and how to fix their mistakes.

67. Modicity has never produced great things. (George Bernard Shaw)

Sometimes it is necessary to take risks to achieve something better.

68. You will most certainly go the middle ground. (Ovid)

It is a place to regain strength

69. To bad weather, good face. (Spanish saying)

Bad things never last long.

70. What best suits the youth is modesty, modesty, the love of temperance and justice. Such are the virtues that must form your character. (Socrates)

It is never too early to learn to moderate ourselves.

71. The art of putting pleasure at the service of joy, that is, the virtue that knows not to fall from taste to disgust, has been called temperance since ancient times. (Fernando Savater)

When something is abused, it ceases to cause us pleasure.

72. Joy, temperance and rest, they close the door in the nose of the doctor. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Ways we can have a healthy life.

73. Pleasure, peace and happiness live in method and temperance. (Margaret Cavendish)

It is important to control ourselves to enjoy something.

74. If you can't avoid anger, at least temper it; if you cannot prevent the fury, at least hold it back. (San Isidoro of Seville)

It is okay not to suppress negative emotions, but it is important not to get carried away by them.

75. Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues (Aristotle)

It all starts with our way of education.

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76. Even in excess there is moderation. (Benjamin Disraeli)

Otherwise it would do us a lot of harm.

77. A mystery that is solved with an explanation has never been. (Károly Kerényi)

A mystery is one that prevails for a long time.

78. They told me about it and I forgot it, I saw it and I learned it, I did it and I understood it. (Confucius)

All knowledge needs to be applied to be conquered.

79. Take care of your habits, because they will become your destiny. (Mahatma Gandhi)

The things we do today will influence our life tomorrow.

80. It is continuous temperance that sustains the body for a longer period of time, and what surely keeps it free from disease. (Wilhelm Von Humboldt)

It is what gives us strength to continue.

81. Chastity is a monastic and evangelical superstition, a greater enemy of natural temperance even than non-intellectual sensuality. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Temperance should not be restrictive.

82. The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is strength. (Francis Bacon)

Temperance helps us avoid being blinded by success.

83. Temperance is the nurse of chastity. (William Wycherley)

Chastity as a symbol of purity.

84. The proper function of religion is to regulate the hearts of men, humanize their conduct, instill the spirit of temperance, order and obedience. (David Hume)

The goal of religions.

85. temperance adds enthusiasm to pleasure. (Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles)

A responsible enjoyment.

86. Temperance is love in training. (Dwight L. Moody)

One way to describe temperance.

87. We become aware of things when we stop to look at behaviors and events with greater distance than when we were fully involved in them. (Jean Shinoda Bolen)

The way we really learn from an experience.

88. Let us learn to increase continence, to face excess, to temper gluttony, to mitigate anger. (Seneca)

Learning to manage our emotions will help us deal with problems.

89. Half of life is luck. The other half must be discipline, because without it we will not know how to manage good luck. (Voltaire)

Luck is not everything.

90. The lack of temperance of the patient makes the doctor cruel. (Seneca)

There are those who do not collaborate with those who want to help them.